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I'm going to be a bit scarce around here for the next couple of weeks. I have two week-long events for which I need to leave the house and be around other people. I know - SHOCKING.

This week I'm at a technical conference (Hey! Look, Ma! No Pantyhose!), where I'll be learning new and exciting stuff about the technology I use in customer proposals. I've tried attending these conferences remotely in the past, and I find that I can always find something else to do* rather than attending the sessions, so I'm going to one of our R&D facilities to attend this time. I'm hoping that since I'm making the effort to be there in person, I'll be a bit more focused and get more out of it.

Next week I'll be attending another technical conference, but it's one that's for and about customers. I have a number of customers attending, so I'm basically going to support them and try and drum up some excitement about our new technologies and products. I have to wear pantyhose for that one, darn it.

After two weeks of leaving the house every day, I suspect I may lose my mind. Yes, yes, I know - I'm a spoiled, spoiled engineer, complaining about the fabulousness of my professional life, and it makes you want to punch me in the throat. Just giving fair warning, so if I appear on anyone's blog drooling and writing in a Palinesque way, I want you all to know there are the mitigating circumstances. We'll return to our regularly scheduled programming in a couple of weeks.

*Work related tasks, not playing with Boogie Dog or watching You-Tube. I've been a virtual worker for many, many years, and the discipline required for this lifestyle is second nature to me now.

About Me

I am a Hot Chick living in Castle Rock, CO with my fabulous family. We have a rescue dog named "Jackson," and she's a Basenji/Shepherd mix. She's something of a head case, but we love her. I'm a U.S. Navy vet, and I currently work as an Enterprise Solutions Architect, specializing in VoIP and multimedia contact center design. I care about social justice, libraries, science, the U.S. Constitution and the military. I'm a tax and spend liberal in a largely red county, but I try not to be stabby about it. I have a little resale side business called "Alastrina Enterprises." Stupidity, cupidity and wanton assholery piss me off, and I'm more than a little soft when it comes to dogs and those who serve others. I blog about whatever I feel like. I use foul language, so if that sort of thing offends you, feel free to fuck off now - if I'm unwilling to clean up my language for my fabulous Great Auntie Margie, I'm unlikely to do so for you. Newcomers are welcome here, especially those who disagree with me, but trolling and spamming will be met with the Shovel of Doom™.